Posted Dec-19-2011 By

magna750

Posted Dec-19-2011 By

jay333dee

its a weight and balance thing, the pilot need to slow the aircraft so that the jumpers can get into position.
At 2:50 there are now 3 jumpers hanging out the door.
that's almost 400LB outside the center of balance.
the pilot is also has to cross control in order to handle the drag caused by the and the body's handing out side the plane.

The tandom jumpers now move out into the slip stream and slow the aircraft even more.

The the stall starts.. I'm sure the stall.. it's no big deal..
He sMore..hould have been able to fix it in less than 2 turns.
but the check pilot( the guy in the right seat) seem's to take this time to be giving instruction on what he's done wrong.

The spin in this plane is no big deal. it stressed for it.
a spin in a 172. you need to stop them as soon as possible.
more than about 8 turns. you can stave the engine of oil or over
stress the plane on trying to recover.

I've seen other jump op's do races to the ground but I don't think spinning back to the airport is legal in the usa.Less..

outsidelooknn

Posted Dec-19-2011 By

Harve

Intentional spin depicted here. After the camera guy finally jumps he looks back at the plane and you can see all the controls turned into the spin to maintain it. The key one is the rudder, which we can't see directly, but we do see the steerable tailwheel turned to the right. The incident referenced at the end must have been some other flight.

As a kid in high school (the '70s) I took my 7AC Champ to 12700ft (no mixture control - lol) and spun it down to 2500ft. I was ... dizzy.

Posted Dec-19-2011 By

rpurdey

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One of your first lessons is to enter a spin and then to recover. No big deal, apart from he left it spinning for long time. I don't know anything about sky diving but I don't think I would want to exit a spinning aircraft. I'm not sure if there would be a danger from the rear tail.

Posted Dec-19-2011 By

wickedsmilee

This looks intentional. I am both a pilot and skydiver. The view of the plane at 7:27 and after clearly shows the ailerons, rudder and elevator are being controlled to continue the aircraft spinning. This pilot should be grounded.

Posted Dec-19-2011 By

RickBond

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First-a lot of pilots go into this spiral , BUT they wait until all the jumpers are out--this spiral dive allows them to get back on the ground faster so they can get more jumpers out.
Why they began the spiral with jumpers still on was stupid
Intentional spin

But aside from al that I did get a giggle out of the cripple freak jumping out